Category: Timely Commentary & Analysis

The United Nations Moving Forward

The Atlantic Council, in partnership with the Government of Sweden for the Transatlantic Partnership for the Global Future project, hosted a private roundtable discussion on July 8, 2015, that considered how reform measures could help assuage the various challenges facing the United Nations (UN) today and in the future. The discussion centered around two topics, […]

Atlantic Council Co-Sponsors Conference on Extraterritoriality in Financial Regulation

By Chris Lyon

On June 26, the Atlantic Council’s Transatlantic Finance Initiative co-sponsored a conference concerning the extraterritoriality organized by Oxford University Press’s Journal of Financial Regulation at Georgetown Law. Regulators, diplomats, lawyers and academics met for a three panel series of papers, followed by regulatory commentary, on a variety of issues including: mutual recognition, economic diplomacy, sanctions, […]

Report Launch: The New Containment by Bilal Y. Saab

By Brent Scowcroft Center

Securing the Middle East after an Iran nuclear deal is the region and the world’s next big challenge. The United States and its allies have engaged in tireless diplomacy with Iran over the past few years to produce an agreement that would limit Tehran’s nuclear program for the next decade and a half. A final […]

Global Missile Defense Conference

By Brent Scowcroft Center

Attempting to defend Europe against a Russian ballistic missile attack would be “extremely challenging and costly,” according to the State Department’s top missile defense official. Frank Rose, Assistant Secretary of State, said that “the size and sophistication of Russia’s strategic missile force” outweighs US and NATO defense interceptors otherwise “available to defend against such a large force.” Rose’s comments […]

Climate Security: The Next ‘Battle Ground’?

By Global Energy Center

In honor of the European Union’s (EU) Climate Diplomacy Day on June 17, 2015, the Atlantic Council’s Global Energy Center, in cooperation with the EU, hosted a discussion exploring the critical dynamic between climate change and global security. Panelists addressed the local and global actions that can be taken to reduce the stresses climate change […]

End Game for Iran Nuclear Negotiations

By Barbara Slavin

With the arrival of Secretary of State John Kerry and his Iranian counterpart, Javad Zarif, in Vienna Friday, the climax to nearly two years of intensive negotiations is at hand.

Missile Defense in the Asia Pacific

By Brent Scowcroft Center

The conversation of this panel focused on strategic level issues of US engagement in the Asia-Pacific, the Asian perspective of missile defense, efforts from Congress to address this issue, and the geopolitics in the Asia-Pacific theater that affects US missile defense.